Brooklyn’s 9 Biggest Celebrity Home Sales of 2015

If you were a celebrity, where would you want to live? Brooklyn is a nice little hideaway, and a couple mil goes much farther here than in, say, Manhattan.

In 2015, Nets player Thaddeus Young joined the swelling ranks of celebrities who call Brooklyn home, while Girls star Zosia Mamet hightailed it back to Manhattan after a short stint in Bushwick.

Confirmed Brooklynites Michelle Williams, Christina Ricci, and Norah Jones snapped up new townhouses in the borough this year. It’s hard to say which is more impressive: The $6,250,000 “Eat, Pray, Love” carriage house Jones bought or the Prospect Park South mega-mansion Williams bought for $2,500,001. The most prominent house in the area, it’s been called a “Victorian steamboat of a house…on steroids.”

1. Zosia Mamet Selling Bushwick House After One Year, Asks $600K More After living in Bushwick for only 11 months, Girls star Zosia Mamet and boyfriend actor Evan Jonigkeit put their house on the market and sold it in May. They reaped $337,500 from the sale, and Bushwick, for better or worse, was left with a much higher profile. The couple didn’t do much to the interior, except to paint the kitchen cabinets white. The house at 896 Flushing Avenue was already gut renovated without a shred of original detail left when they purchased it.

4. OkCupid Cofounder Makes a Match With Greenpoint Building In August, OkCupid cofounder Christian Rudder matched with a Greenpoint townhouse — for $2,120,000. The 3,400-square-foot multi-family at 925 Lorimer Street includes an 850-square-foot private yard. The listing notes it would be easy to convert the three-unit residence into a two- or single-family home.

6. Actress Michelle Williams in Contract on Prospect Park South Mega-Mansion In July, Golden Globe-winning actress Michelle Williams closed on Prospect Park South’s most prominent house — a move we would not have predicted for such a famous actress. The gigantic Colonial Revival mansion at 1440 Albemarle Road had been on the market for about a year, most recently asking $2,450,000.

7. Check Out Brooklyn Nets Star Thaddeus Young’s $5.4 Million Brooklyn Heights Pad Brooklyn Nets power forward Thaddeus Young purchased a swanky three-bedroom, three-floor condo in One Brooklyn Bridge Park in September for $5,325,000. The basketball star is doubtless appreciating the “amazing natural light” and “stunning park, city and water views” of his new digs — the latter perhaps best seen from his balcony made with wood reclaimed from the Coney Island Boardwalk.